Pure Fingers is a live album by Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

, recorded on St. Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day is a religious holiday celebrated internationally on 17 March. It commemorates Saint Patrick , the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of :Ireland, and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion , the Eastern...

 in 1993, at the Barrowland Ballroom

Barrowland Ballroom

The Barrowlands is a major dance hall and concert venue in Glasgow, Scotland.-History of Barrowland Ballroom:The original building opened in 1934 in a mercantile area east of Glasgow's city centre...

 in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. Stiff Little Fingers are from Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

 and playing Glasgow Barrowlands to mark St. Patrick's Day has become an annual event for the band. The gig set list contained a mixture of old favourites from the original incarnation of the band along with newer tracks from when the band reformed after splitting up for a few years.

Track listing

1. "Go for It" (Jake Burns/Henry Cluney) - 1:42
2. "Nobody's Hero" (Burns/Gordon Ogilvie) - 4:02
3. "At the Edge" (Burns) - 3:09
4. "No Surrender" (Burns) - 4.17
5. "Love of the Common People
   Love of the Common People (song)
   "Love of the Common People" is a folk ballad written and composed by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins and first released in January 1967 by The Four Preps...
   
   " (John Hurley/Ronnie Wilkins) - 2:57
6. "What If I Want More?" (Burns) - 1:39
7. "Fly the Flag" (Burns/Ogilvie) - 4:01
8. "Piccadilly Circus" (Ogilvie/Burns) - 4:54
9. "Wasted Life" (Burns) - 3:38
10. "When the Stars Fall From the Sky" (Burns/Bruce Foxton) - 4:03
11. "Road to Kingdom Come" (Burns) - 3:36
12. "Stand Up and Shout" (Burns/Taylor/Emanuel) - 3:02
13. "Smithers-Jones" (Bruce Foxton
    Bruce Foxton
    Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.-Biography:...
    
    ) - 2:37
14. "Barbed Wire Love" (Burns/Ogilvie) - 3:45
15. "(It's A) Long Way to Paradise" (Burns) - 3:26
16. "Gotta Gettaway" (Burns/Ogilvie) - 3:46
17. "Suspect Device" (Fingers/Ogilvie) - 3:30
18. "Walk Tall" (Don Wayne) - 2:21
19. "Tin Soldiers" (Fingers/Ogilvie) - 4:40
20. "Alternative Ulster" (Burns/Ogilvie) - 3:15

Personnel

• Jake Burns
  Jake Burns
  Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
  
   - vocals/guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
  
   - guitar/backing vocals
• Bruce Foxton
  Bruce Foxton
  Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician who is best known as the bass player in punk rock bands The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers.-Biography:...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  /backing vocals
• Dolphin Taylor
  Dolphin Taylor
  Brian "Dolphin" Taylor is a British drummer.-Tom Robinson Band:His career started when he gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Dolphin filled in...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  /backing vocals
• Ricky Warwick
  Ricky Warwick
  Ricky Warwick is possibly best known as the frontman for the Scottish band The Almighty. Starting out as a rhythm guitarist in New Model Army, Ricky formed The Almighty in 1988. Warwick was the lead vocalist and played guitar in various formats of the band. In 1996 he left The Almighty...
  
  - guest vocal/guitar